Comments on: Blogging Ethics

By: Daniel Moroz

Daniel Moroz — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:10:54 +0000

Thanks Scott. I had the feeling that was the case, but was willing to give the benefit of the doubt.

By: Scott Hoffman

Scott Hoffman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:52:04 +0000

Thanks for bringing this to light Daniel. What I don’t understand with Jordan is that he and I had a heated e-mail exchange discussing the EXACT SAME PRINCIPLES/ISSUES/ETC. at the end of 2009 when his “friend” spammed our message board. I brought up the same issues you mentioned…plagiarism, taking the scouting reports of others and re-wording them, etc.

Him pretending that, “Golly gee Dan! Thanks for pushing the issue with me!” proves just how disingenuous he is.

You have every right to be pissed with him. Not only are a significant portion of his “scouting reports” plagiarized but it was brought to his attention well before his website was brought to yours.

Sincerely,
Scott Hoffman, Managing Editor
http://www.OriolesHangout.com

By: Zachary

Zachary — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:26:26 +0000

Ugh. I can’t believe anyone’s saying you’re being too harsh. 15 is not 8 or 10. The notion that someone doesn’t have a sense of what’s right or wrong at 15 is ludicrous. And one imagines that if this ois the stuff you found, there’s at least twice as much that you didn’t find.

Let’s call this what it is: A person was trying to steal the work of others, pass it off as his own, and make a profit on it. Of course he knew what he was doing was wrong. He’s not an idiot. And it doesn’t matter that he was “a kid”. Even in his apology, he tries to minimize what he did by implying it’s just “a few” players, when there are at least seven on this page that we can identify, which means there are probably more.

It’s really problematic that we have devolved into a culture where people are taught that it’s okay to cheat, and if you get caught just “say you’re sorry and move on”. Michael Vick, Mark McGwire, etc.

I truly hope Jordan has learned his lesson, but only time will tell.

By: Daniel Moroz

Daniel Moroz — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:29:50 +0000

Thank you kindly Wayward O.

PS – I have no idea what it really tells me about your curveball, but it sounds delicious.

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By: the Wayward O

the Wayward O — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:51:43 +0000

you did the kid a favor

this is quickly becoming my favorite Os blog

ps. my curveball has a zingy snappiness redolent of pasta primavera

By: Daniel Moroz

Daniel Moroz — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:50:43 +0000

Now Matt (Sadler), you surely must know that I can’t do that in real-time because I wouldn’t be able to accurately value the defense. The batting side is just linear weights though, so that would be relatively easy to do on a PA by PA basis.

By: Sadler

Sadler — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:53:56 +0000

This is a very touchy issue. I know my team has worked very hard to build relationships with various minor league teams. It was made much more difficult because of a generalized and unfair reputation of bloggers. This type of stuff doesn’t help the reputation.

Jordan- hey man it happened, you were called out on it, you fessed up, move on and good luck. I think what makes blogging wonderful is that we don’t have to be experts on stuff. We don’t have to take ourselves too seriously. We are fans who love the O’s and we just want to express are fondness or frustration. Good luck to you in your endeavor. Hopefully we can all go to a game together this season and we can make fun of Moroz as his head explodes because he is doing his real-time WAR calculations.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:15:40 +0000

Thank you Daniel for bringing it up to me first, and being pushy. I understand why you were harsh, although you were pretty hard on me and it took it’s toll. I appreciate all the input on this. I really do want to be a contributing member to the blogOsphere and understand what I did before was not a good way to do that. This will never happen again. I have learned so much from this already in the last three days and hope to continue to learn every day about blogging. You guys are great, thanks.

By: KS

KS — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:39:12 +0000

Daniel, thank you for taking the time to look into this and explain so thoroughly the problems with someone appropriating others’ work as their own. Plagiarism is a major problem in today’s world, since it’s so easy to find whatever you need on the web, then cut and paste, As a part-time college professor, I’ve seen it a lot. And it disturbs me that a college junior downplays the seriousness of the offense. It is stealing, plain and simple. I’m sure what Jordan stole was the result of several days of someone’s work, which is worth hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. Yes, understand that he’s 15. But if a 15-year-old stole hundreds of dollars cash from someone, he’d be reprimanded and punished, at the very least. Quite possibly, he’d face legal action. In this case, he’s getting off with a reprimand.

Everyone needs to understand that plagiarism is a serious offense and anyone with integrity (or aspiring to establish a reputation for credibility and integrity) will know what’s appropriate and what’s not, and behave accordingly.